The autobiographical notes of Alice Parris: poet/lyricist/singer of old jazz standards.

ABOUT DEATH THREATS AGAINST OBAMA & VIOLENCE AGAINST SUPPORTERS

What this election has done is to push cowardly racism to the surface of our society. This has been a dirty little secret submerged underground by those in power and uneducated bigots, alike. The only glimpse that we have gotten to see, since the Civil Rights Movement, have been isolated cases and an occassional surreal visual on the Jerry Springer show. Nevertheless, the recruiting going on with the Aryan Nation/white supremacist groups has hit an all time high with the election of President Obama. Those who threaten are obviously unaware that the same measures used to detect the presence of terrorist activities within the United States, will flush them out, as well.

Lately, there has been the tragic case of a woman who drove from Oklahoma to join a “wannabe” KKK initiation ceremony ninety miles north of New Orleans. When she changed her mind in the middle of this ceremony, she was killed, her possessions burned and she was dumped along the side of the road with bungling brush to cover her. It was quickly discovered that this group (who recruited this young woman from the internet) was not a part of the infamous KKK. It was just a group of angry, uneducated racists who were itching for violence against blacks. If this is what they do to potential recruits, how dare they call their mandate “a God-given right?” It is absurd.

Sarah Palin has blood upon her hands, yet she is still being courted and followed. I’ll bet that she is losing more sleep over the $150,000.00 worth of clothes purchased by the RNC than she is about the $150,000.00 worth of guns bought at one store in Tennessee the day after the election. Governor Sarah Palin, while plowing through the lower forty-eight, stirred up the darkest elements of fear in people who were afraid of change-they liked things just the way they were (before the economic bottom fell out.) Nevermind, the country had been sacked by the greedy, leaving only the needy to fend for themselves. Nevermind, the entire global economy had been destabilized under a Republican administration.

What was needed was a “scapegoat.” I believe that the “white is right” crowd will act out upon blacks, because ninety-five percent of blacks stood for hours to vote because they could! These Aryan nation/white supremacist groups were already getting geared up because of the perceived “illegal immigration” threat. Now that there is a President-elect Obama, they have their fuel for violence against all non-white citizens whom they feel might have voted for President-elect Obama.

I just read an article which expressed the frustration of these groups who claimed to have built this country and were not going to sit by and let it go to the blacks. News flash: the soil of this country was fertilized by the blood of the many extinct Native American tribes that existed here for centuries before Europeans came and was built up by the hands of black slaves. Even the White House had to do with the working hands of slaves. Threatening young black children, vandalizing and desecrating the property of black families and random violence cannot change this. Now is the season for the back of racism to be broken in the earth. The religious spirits who hide an agenda of racism will be exposed for what they are.

Those who are on talk show radio who malign President-elect Obama will begin to experience personal losses. Those who use the media to continue to divide and not reconcile will be left by a world more concerned with staving off food shortages, than picking on a race or group of people due to ethnicity or religion. Bigotry has got to stop. All hate groups who are recruiting will be caught by the authorities. Isolated acts of violence will be investigated to a satisfactory conclusion. The expression, “the South shall rise again” will not ring true. Subterranean racists groups who have been flushed out by this election shall find themselves being prosecuted in a courts of law. It does not bode well, for violent bigotry. The days of unprosecuted white-hooded sheet-fests are over.

It is written: “…the first shall be last and the last shall be first…” All of the Catholic Churches who refuse communion to those who voted for Obama should have been more active over the past thirty years since Roe vs. Wade. There were many who could have worked tirelessly to get it overturned. Where was this policy when President Bill Clinton was in office and pro-choice? I never heard that those who chose to expose or ignore priest-pedophellia could not receive Communion. This is just a smokescreen for fear and hatred. Fear is not of faith, therefore not of God. One who hates has the spirit of murder, according to the Word. What Bible are these people reading? The spirit of error has been released upon the earth. Those in the pews should do well to read the Bible for themselves and not depend on the Pastor to interpret for them. Who is to say that the pastor is not a “flawed vessel?”

This next statement is a prophetic decree: “…accursed are the works of darkness…” and “…this affliction shall not arise a second time…” I will stand upon my decree from the Word of God against any random, demonic activity dressed up as righteousness in the earth.

Dearest Helen,
I will rest awhile. You and I have been vigilant, as have been all lovers of peace. As I see the world spinning faster and faster, I know that it is the grounded and rooted who will endure. I am comforted by the faith that ties us together. Ties that bind.
I love you.
Alice